I am a worker now, who spend my Monday to Friday in my work activities as an Management Trainee in Japan manufacturing company. We know so well how Japan companies carry out their management, right? So rigid, clumsy, and discipline. First time I joined this company I didn't even sure that I would be a part of this company. But God took me here (until now). Here's the story goes: I am an Engineer, Metallurgy and Materials Engineer. I've studied about metals, steels, minerals, materials, manufacturing, chemical, extraction, corrosion, failure analysis, etc for around 3,5 years. This head off course almost crack and 'berjamur' (I don't know what's the correlation of this two words). On the other hand, I work and learn something which is so far far far far away from this things in my work daily time. I've met so many new things, new challenges, and so many new things that's called 'bukan gue banget' in this Japan company with almost full of Japan's culture authorities.
Within my working months, I have actually done a lot lot lot lot of contemplation. My heart said that I should go back and give 'my Metallurgy Engineer' another try. But sometimes, my brain spoke that I should do my favorite kinds of activity like something art or journalism corner. Besides, I have never stopped loving art and designing, writting, and my inner self wanted to explore that side of me. For this contemplation, I've thought year by year, month by month, day by day, and time by time ago, until now, yeaaaaah I swear. But.... Okay, that's still swimming in the deepest of my heart haha. I have not take my final decision yet.
And here I am as a lady worker (with 'itu-lagi--itu-lagi' activity). My typical day goes like this: wake up at 4 am (if I go to work from my home) or at 5:30 am (if I stay at my rent home-near the office) – catch my driver that leaves at 6 am – arrive work at 6:30 am – leaves the office at 4:30 pm with my driver – arrive home at 5:30 pm – take a breath and bath, then dinner, read or write, chat, and sleep. I tried my best to plug myself away to write or read before bed, because I do love writting and sharing my mind. But it has always brought complications to my job (waking up late, being unproductive, losing focus at work, etc). In short, with a full-time job like this, squeezing an hour or two to write before I go to bed could be back-breaking. Nevertheless, I still write in my blog draft even it has not be posted yet haha because I have not finish them.
I have been having a full-time job for five months now. Because of the experiences, I have realised that I might not be the only person stretching themselves to work in a job that requires full, 5 days x 8 hours (minimum!) of commitment per week; while at the same time, still protect my dreams and find ways to reach them. In terms of managing these activities, I arrange my strategy to do all the things that I love without break my full-time job. Thanks to weekends hehe :). My Monday to Friday activity is my absolute-fix-activity (exclude the night time, maybe I can put something to do there unconditionally). Remember, there are Saturday and Sunday, my free weekends hehe. I take this weekend to do my refreshing activities, like hanging out, shopping, hibernating, meeting the old friends, even writting blog.
My weekends always full of happiness activities (in order of that, you must make an appointment ahead of very long time to go with me :p). In a day of my weekends, I can go to five to six different destinations or maybe just one destination in a full of day. I'm a high-mobility type of person. I can meet my lovely friends to make a chat until we forget the time, go to wedding party (believe it or not, wedding is my favorite event. It's sweet and touched), go to salon-body spa-hair treatment, spend my family time, heart-to-heart talk, take a gym or sport exercise (jogging, swimming), clean my house, or just silent sit in the cafe and take my laptop writting my blog.
My so happy weekends activities balance my so smooth weekdays activities. It makes my days more colorful because colors make me happy. I figured out that my daily activities are to spread happiness by creating something that brings smiles to other people's faces. By delivering more colors. By being positive because positivity is contagious. By helping as many people as I can. The point is don't let yourself trapped in to your busy work time, do more of what makes you happy, any days :)
Love my worker daily time,
Dewi Lestari Natalia.
Article "A Lady Worker Daily" protected